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The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 3, an anthology of fantasy short fiction edited by Lin Carter.

Volume 3 of the The Year's Best Fantasy Stories fantasy anthology series.

• The Year in Fantasy – a foreword by Lin Carter
• Eudoric's Unicorn – by L. Sprague de Camp
• Shadow of a Demon – by Gardner F. Fox – first published in The Dragon (#2, August 1976)
• Ring of Black Stone – by Pat McIntosh – first published in Anduril (#6, August 1976)
• The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr – by George R. R. Martin – first published in Fantastic (Vol.25, No.3, May 1976)
• Two Suns Setting – by Karl Edward Wagner – first published in Fantastic (Vol.25, No.3, May 1976)
• The Stairs in the Crypt – by Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter – first published in Fantastic (Vol.25, No.4, August 1976)
• The Goblin Blade – by Raul Garcia Capella
• The Dark King – by C.J. Cherryh
• Black Moonlight – by Lin Carter – first published in Fantastic (Vol.25, No.5, November 1976)
• The Snout in the Alcove – by Gary Myers
• The Pool of the Moon – by Charles R. Saunders
• The Year's Best Fantasy Books – an afterword by Lin Carter